Sean O'Brien (writer) explained

Sean O'Brien
Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Birth Date:19 December 1952
Birth Place:London, England
Nationality:British
Education:Hymers College
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Genres:Poet, critic, playwright
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Notableworks:The Drowned Book (2007)
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Awards:Eric Gregory Award (1979); Somerset Maugham Award (1984); Cholmondeley Award (1988); Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007); T. S. Eliot Prize (2007)

Sean O'Brien FRSL (born 19 December 1952) is a British poet, critic and playwright. Prizes he has won include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only four poets (the others being Ted Hughes, John Burnside and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book).

Born in London, England, O'Brien grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.[1] He has lived since 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he teaches at the university.[2] He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford, for 2016–17.[3]

Career

O Brien's book of essays on contemporary poetry, The Deregulated Muse (Bloodaxe), was published in 1998, as was his anthology The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador). Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) was published in 2002. His new verse version of Dante's Inferno was published by Picador in October 2006. O'Brien's six collections of poetry to date have all won awards. In 2007, he won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007). This was the second time a poet had been awarded the Forward and the Eliot prizes in the same year.

In 2006, he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and was previously Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a Vice-President of the Poetry Society.[4] He was co-founder of the literary magazine The Printer's Devil, contributes reviews to newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement and is a regular broadcaster on radio. His writing for television includes "Cousin Coat", a poem-film in Wordworks (Tyne Tees Television, 1991); "Cantona", a poem-film in On the Line (BBC2, 1994); Strong Language, a 45-minute poem-film (Channel 4, 1997) and The Poet Who Left the Page, a profile of Simon Armitage (BBC4, 2002). Other significant work includes a radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4 of "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

O'Brien was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.[5]

Awards and honours

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
Anthologies (edited)
List of poems
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Café de L’Imprimerie2014O'Brien, Sean . 12 May 2014 . . The New Yorker . 90 . 12 . 35 . 30 November 2018-->.
In Translation2022Butcher's Dog poetry magazine, issue 16.[13]

Plays

Novels

Short fiction

Collections

Literary criticism

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. Selwyn College Freshmen 1971 http://www.selwyn.saund.co.uk/1971freshmen1.html
  2. Web site: Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University.
  3. Web site: Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature. 14 December 2023 .
  4. Web site: The Poetry Society . The Poetry Society . 24 January 2014.
  5. Web site: Sean O'Brien. Royal Society of Literature. 18 July 2023.
  6. Web site: American Academy of Arts and Letters – Home . Artsandletters.org . 24 January 2014.
  7. http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poetryprizewinners.htm Forward Arts Foundation
  8. Web site: The Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award 2007 . The Northern Rock Foundation . 22 March 2007 . 23 March 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140508/http://www.nr-foundationwriters.com/winners8-Sean-O'Brien.htm . 28 September 2007 . dmy-all.
  9. Web site: O'Brien honoured with poetry win. BBC News. 15 January 2008.
  10. Web site: Flambard Press. Flambard Press. 26 September 2012. 24 January 2014.
  11. Web site: 2020-10-27 . It Says Here by Sean O'Brien review – impossibility made possible . 2022-04-03 . the Guardian . en.
  12. Web site: Embark by Sean O'Brien . 2022-04-03 . www.panmacmillan.com . en.
  13. Web site: Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine Newcastle . 2022-04-03 . Butcher's Dog . en.
  14. Web site: Bloomsbury.com. Bloomsbury - Sean O'Brien - Sean O'Brien. 2020-11-14. www.bloomsbury.com. en.

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